Sentences with phrase «populations in check»

Most introduced species are not able to do so, but a small percentage can, benefiting from the lack of natural controls like predators, competition, and climate fluctuations that would otherwise keep their populations in check.

Bats are one of nature's primary natural defenses for keeping mosquito populations in check.

Today, California sheephead, spiny lobsters, and sunflower stars are the primary consumers of sea urchins that help keep their populations in check.

More than 1,300 species of bats roam the planet playing ecological roles that are vital to natural ecosystems and human economies — from pollinating plants and keeping insect populations in check, to making valuable fertilizer (guano) and dispersing seeds.

The only solution to this problem is to keep dog and cat populations in check through spay and neuter.

They can talk to your dog's brain, they manufacture many of his vitamins and they keep dangerous or pathogenic bacteria, viruses and fungi (like yeast) populations in check.

While keeping rat or mouse populations in check may be beneficial, the indiscriminate hunter can become a menace to livestock and poultry.

The fixed cats do a good job of keeping rodent and other pest populations in check.

While it is understandable that the United States is still currently exploring new ways to keep their ballooning pet populations in check, from the manically depths of my mind, I would like to offer the people of China this fool - proof solution.

«Monkeys are cute, but can devastate systems that don't have the proper predators or other ecological means to keep their populations in check,» said Jane Anderson, a doctoral student in wildlife ecology and the lead author on this study.

Although there are seven other native carnivore species on the island, the fossa is largely credited with keeping lemur populations in check.

According to the popular logic, the wolves preyed on elk, keeping the grazers» populations in check, which allowed dwindling aspen populations, and the beavers that fed on them, to rebound.

By eating mussels on the low shores in Oregon, sea stars keep those populations in check so the bivalves don't explode in numbers, at the expense of other organisms.

«Daphnia are the principle grazers in freshwater ponds, keeping algal populations in check,» Palkovacs explained.

The idea is that the new grizzly bears would fill the same ecological role as their vanished relatives, as omnivores that spread seeds, break up soil and keep prey populations in check.

Well I guess in the future we fight wars with robots, because GOD is making man to man lovers to keep populations in check so mother Earth can breath...

Nothing like an imaginary friend in the sky or the myth of eternal damnation to keep the population in check.

A failure of immune cells to keep the gut microbe population in check can lead to chronic gut inflammation, manifesting as IBD.

It has generally been assumed that this growing population of viruses, in turn, kills more and more microbes, keeping the microbial population in check.

In the futuristic MidMerica, the only true death is one given by a Scythe, who glean souls to keep the population in check.

While Drumlin Farm is a wildlife sanctuary and doesn't generally allow pets on site, this role of a barn cat, keeping the rodent population in check, is an important function in a working barn.

TAVARES — With money for spaying and neutering pets nearly exhausted, Lake County leaders want state legislators to support ideas that would earn the county nearly $ 60,000 yearly to keep the animal population in check.

We help keep the feral / stray / abandoned cat population in check through the Trap - Neuter / Spay - Vaccinate - Return program.

All pets have some environmental impact, but spaying and neutering keeps the pet population in check (and unwanted litters out of shelters).

(Note: If you seem to have a lot of feral cats in your neighborhood, consider getting involved with a Trap, Neuter, Release (TNR) program to help keep the feral population in check.)

A normal immune system keeps the mite population in check so that no disease results and the puppy's hair coat remains normal.

While the cats help keep the vermin population in check, they can also carry disease, kill backyard wildlife and be noisy nuisances when they are seeking a mate.

An excellent hunter and renown for its mousing and ratting capabilities, this longhaired cat is often employed as a farm cat, to keep the rodent population in check.

Consider what happens to deer on an island with no natural predators to keep their population in check...

This would be analogous to deer populations or any other grazing species that eventually over populates their food supply with no predators to keep the adult population in check.

Not exact matches

A big part of what's driving Opdivo's success is an early decision by BMS to chase a much wider share of the cancer patient population — a decision that has meant that doctors don't have to administer a time - consuming diagnostic test to check if patients have a protein called PD - L1 before prescribing Opdivo in certain cancers.

Shortly after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, 89 % of the U.S. population, including 84 % of gun owners and 74 % of NRA members, supported universal background checks.

Ashwin Alankar of Janus Henderson published his latest article «Brace for Steeper Yield Curves as the Wolves Return,» which highlighted grey wolf's role in maintaining a delicate balance in Yellowstone's ecosystem by keeping population of herbivores in - check, which in - turn reduced risks of overgrazing of young brush and trees in the park.

Check this quran quote 33:26 And He brought down (the ones) of the population of the Book (Or: Family of the Book, i.e., the Jews and christians) who backed them from their bastions, and hurled horror in their hearts; a group you killed and (another) group you (made) captive.

Last time I checked the largest population of humans are in Asia and by a large margin.

Disease and early mortality, which were understandably judged to be evil, nonetheless kept in check the natural increase in human population.

(CNN)- Twitter says it has more than 100 million active users - a pretty impressive chunk of the online population who are, if nothing else, checking in to see what other people are sharing.

10 unlikely tweeters Twitter says it has more than 100 million active users — a pretty impressive chunk of the online population who are, if nothing else, checking in to see what other people are sharing.

i got it from to different websites and I'm not going to check on it i care less, even if it was 3 % of the population i would be on their side and injustice in an injustice.

I do not think that it's the inability to bridge the gap between science and religion — it's that more of us are educated, and see the Bible for what it truly is — a collection of stories, used throughout history, to ensure that populations were «kept in check» by a threat from a so - called higher power.

However, if you are in the other 99.99 % of the population, you might want to check out these pictures of the red - hot red - head, who once had a threesome with Justin Bieber.

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in the country's working - age population and leading health charity Diabetes UK warns that blindness is just one complication that people with diabetes could be at risk of because they are missing out on a wide range of health checks and specialist services.

But I know you have your very good reasons for being among the 98 percent of the population that shuns public transportation: • You can read, check email, send text messages, or catch a few winks while you're swerving into oncoming traffic and pedestrians • You have built - in motivation for stopping at Wendy's for celebration takeout, given that you haven't had to walk more than nine consecutive steps the entire day • You feel good about the copious burning of hydrocarbons, which is creating valuable new beachfront property • You get to trade hand gestures and occasional gunfire with fellow traffic jammers.

It is of no immediate concern to caiman populations in South America because the ants and caimans co-evolved there, and natural red fire ant predators, such as the decapitating fly, help keep the ants in check.

To check out the lead, a group of Israeli medical scientists, and colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, analyzed DNA from 371 newborns in a population of Mediterranean - Jewish descent — a group with a high incidence of hyperbilirubinemia.

In it, Malthus showed why the population was destined to explode in the course of a few years unless checked by hunger catastrophes or epidemicIn it, Malthus showed why the population was destined to explode in the course of a few years unless checked by hunger catastrophes or epidemicin the course of a few years unless checked by hunger catastrophes or epidemics.

Many developed TB either because their immune systems, weakened by drugs, alcohol and poor nutrition, could no longer keep latent TB in check (an estimated one third of the world's population has latent TB) or they caught it from other prisoners.

To check whether helminths cause the same effects in people, the scientists compared two populations in Malaysia: urbanites living in Kuala Lumpur, who harbor few intestinal parasites, and members of an indigenous group, the Orang Asli, who live in a rural area where the worms are rife.

Killing of animals that wander into Montana in winter in search of food aims to keep in check a herd population whose size is determined by social tolerance rather than the ecosystem's carrying capacity, Yellowstone officials said.

That means public health officials may have to start looking for infections and deaths in local wild animal and livestock populations to keep the virus in check, he says.